Conductor-support



(No Model.)

. W. P. ZIMMERMAN.

' CONDUCTOR SUPPORT.

Patented July 12, 1887.

' PATENT Marion.

WILLIAM F. ZIMMERMAN, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

CONDUCTOR-SUPPORT SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,289, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed March 28, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownthat I, WILLIAM P. ZIMMER- -MAN, a resident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Con duetonSupports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to conductor-supports of the class wherein the hook or fasteneris bent into its final form at the time of its use.

It consists of a single piece of wire formed as shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1- shows the device, seen from above, supporting a vertical conductor. Fig. 2 shows the support or fastener, seen in the direction of the arrow of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 illustrates the manner of attaching and of engaging the conductor.

In the drawings, A is a portion of any supporting-wall, and B a conductor to be attached thereto, by means of a fastening or support, which may perhaps be best described by detailing the steps in its construction. A wire of suitable length is bent upon itself at its middle, the bend thus formed being an approximately circular eye, so that the two halves of the wire may be parallel and in contact. At a short distance from the eye D both wires or portions of the wire are bent together into a plane perpendicular to the plane of the eye, and at a short distance from their free ends both parts or arms are bent outward in their own plane, and each end is formed into an eye lying in a plane perpendicular to the general direction of the wires. The support is now in the form shown in Fig. 3, except that, as there shown,'the ends of the wires have-been scparatedjand it is in proper form for shipment, subsequent changes in form being made by the workman applying the device to practical use. In such application the middle eye, I), is placed flat against the supporting-wall and secured by a nail or screw, as indicated in Fig. 1. The arms F F are separated at their outer ends to form aV, having its angle at the wall and its sides in the same horizontal plane as in Figs. 1 and 3. Now, the conduc- Serial No. 232,69. (No model.)

tor B being placed in this angle, as shown in Fig. 3, the arms, when carried about in rings or spirals H. H, may be pressed back until the eyes E E rest against the wall A, where they are secured, like the eye I), by nails or screws. During this operation the fastener adjusts itself to the size of the conductor, for the greater the angular divergence of the parts F F and of the parts G G the greater the proportion of the whole wire available forwrapping about the conductor, that is the larger the conductor may be, and the arms still just reach the wall after passing around it. The wire employed is preferably of steel, possessing both rigidity and elasticity in a certain degree, and consequently when the eyes E E are pressed back to the wall the divergence of the parts F F G G will be just sufficient, and the conductor, large or small, will be held with a constant firm pressure, and all slipping and rattling are prevented.

Having now fully shown and described my invention, what I claim is 1. A conductor-support consisting of a single piece of wire having an eye near its middle point and an eye at each end, said eyes being adapted by their position with reference to the body of the wire to lie in the same plane when the ends of the wire are carried in opposite directions about a conductor to be supported.

2. In conductor-supports formed from asingle piece of wire, an eye all whose parts lie in the same plane, two arms diverging from a point in said plane and lying in a second plane perpendicular to the first, and two eyes formed at the free end of each arm, respectively, said two eyes being adapted to lie at one side of their respective arms and in the plane of the first-mentioned eye when said arms are carried in opposite directions about a conductor placed between them.

3. In single-piecewire eonductorsupports, a wire having near its middle an eye with all its parts in the same plane, two arms extending-outward from said eye and in the same plane, and a second set of arms continuous with the first, but in a plane at right angles to the plane of the first set, adapted to be passed about a conductor to be supported and to be attached to a supporting -Wa11, whereby the In testimony WhereofIhave signed thisspeciconductor is constantly pressed by said second fication in the presence of two subscribing wit- 10 set under the spring-like action of the eye and nesses.

the first set.

5 4. In conductor-supporters, a single-piece WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN' wire having the eye D, arms G G F F, curved Witnesses: portions H H, and eyes E E, substantially as G. W. GRAHAM, set forth. I MICHAEL STORKOFF, 

